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Ch. 19
South and West Transformed
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Undergraduate 1
07/21/2011

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Term
There are 200,000 miles of these by 1897.
Definition
Transcontinental railways
Term
The new south wanted _____________-. Henry Grandy was an important writer about this.
Definition
Industrialization
Term
What two industries in the south grew very fast and remarkably from 1880-1900?
Definition
cotton and tabacco
Term
In 1890 what company did James Duke create? He owned 3/4 of production by 1904
Definition
The American Tabacco company?
Term
what were two NEW industries in the south?
Definition
lumbering and coal mining
Term
T or F? There wasn't a lot of share cropping in the south. Most farmers were very successful. The crop prices were very low, that's bad.
Definition
False, False, True
Term
What negative effects did sharecropping and over cropping the south have on the enviornment? Name two things.
Definition
soil lost fertility, caused silt to go into fresh water.
Term
small government southern local political heros were called "_______" because they were supposably saving the south.
Definition
redeemers
Term
Redeemers were conservative, and made _______ do hard labor. They wanted to suppress blacks in ______.
Definition
prisoners, voting
Term
These southern guys wanted capitalism and big business in charge.
Definition
Bourban democrat
Term
what sensation was sweeping the south in the 1890s?
Definition
Negrophobia
Term
Negrophobia was responded to by ____ _____ _____. People felt threatened by the new generation of better educated and more ambitious free black people.
Definition
Jim Crow Laws
Term
What did Jim Crow Laws do?
Definition
Segregate white places and black places in the south
Term
Southern Bourbons wanted to take voting away from what two groups?
Definition
blacks and poor whites
Term
Some states made literacy tests and poll taxes to make it harder for some groups to vote. A loop hole for whites was the __________ ___________: which stated that you could vote if your grandfather or father voted in 1867. This excluded a ton of blacks
Definition
grandfather clause
Term
What was the famous case Plessy v. Ferguson about?
Definition
a person who was only 1/8 black was told to leaves the white rail car to go to the black one
Term
near the turn of the century there were a lot of ___________ in the south
Definition
lynchings
Term
She was an important african american activist. She worked to promote women's sufferage, helped make NAACP.
Definition
Ida. B Wells
Term
wanted african americans to take a more passive approach to getting along with whites. Helped build Tuskee Alabama School
Definition
Booker T Washington
Term
First black graduate from Harvard. Critic of Booker T. Washington. Wanted Blacks to take an active role in getting equal treatment
Definition
Du Bois
Term
__________: blacks who fled the turmoil of the south and traveled west.
Definition
exodusters
Term
why did whites try to block blacks who wanted to move west, by blocking their way to the mississippi river
Definition
They wanted their labor on the farms
Term
why did the exodusters stop moving west in the 1880s?
Definition
they realized it was hard life out in the west
Term
____________ _________: black ex-war soldiers who were mapping, making forts, and driving out indians in west. Some won medals of honor.
Definition
Buffalo Soldiers
Term
What was wrecking havoc on the enviornment in the west?
Definition
Hard rock mining
Term
What are two tragic events in history in which native americans were harmed unneccesarily?
Definition
Sand Creek and WOUNDED knee
Term
Who was the dipshit who mined illegally in the Sioux hills that was given to the Indians?
Definition
Colonel Custer
Term
The Great Sioux war lasted 15 months. Who was leading it on the native side?
Definition
chief sitting bull.
Term
What contributed to the demise of the buffalo?
Definition
mass slaughtering, drought, cattle
Term
What year can Indians be citizens? What act gave each head of a Indian household 160 acres? (we took it alter)
Definition
1924. Dawes Act
Term
Cowtowns were usually along what? They mostly rounded up what?
Definition
railroads, texas long horn.
Term
The advent of what invention changed a cowboys life the most?
Definition
Barbed wire. No more open range.
Term
1866-1886 was the era of the cowboy. Why did it end?
Definition
2 long winters, 10 years of drought. thieves and wolves
Term
cowboys fought with sheepards and each other over land. What was the name of a skirmish that lasted a year?
Definition
Fence Cutters war 1883-1884
Term
act that stated you could gain land by staking a claim and living there five years, or 1.25 an acre.
Definition
Homestead act o 1862
Term
The burbons wanted _______, while the redeemers wanted ____________ society. Redeemrs wanted _______ rights
Definition
industrialization, agrarian. States
Term
A plan to use all power to make south like old south, make it impossible for blacks to gain power.
Definition
Mississippi plan
Term
1871 Boss ______: plundered new york city treasurey for 200 mill. They fake public projects for years.
Definition
Tweed
Term
In 1873 what party wanted to vote itself higher salaries to the point of being ridiculous while in officee?
Definition
Republicans
Term
This important tariff slapped on a huge tax on all foreign items
Definition
Morrill Tarriff
Term
made uniform national currency. Wanted to back this up with gold standard. We don't have that now we use GDP.
Definition
National Back Act
Term
Ideas of Buy at your own risk. Idea of treating business as a _________..
Definition
person
Term
A contract made between the employer and the employee, government is completely hands off.
Definition
Liberty of contract
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